The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 19.7.4

19.7.4

August 20. — I dispatched answer to Suratt with bills of 9,000 mamoodies of Zulpheckcarcons debt and a Copy of his agreement, to showe such as hee Charged with part of the Goodes, though hee now stood bound for all; with those I sent the Persians firmaen for Iasques and Copyes of all the proceedings therin, to bee ready att the arriuall of our fleete, if occasion required them, aduise about Barooch, the dutch, and all necessary busines. This day and the night past, fell a storme of rayne called the Oliphant vsuall at goeing out of the raynes, but for the greatnes very extraordinarye, wherby ther rann such streames into the Tanck, whose head is made of stone, in show extreamly strong, but the water was soe growne that it bracke over in one place and ther came an alarum and suddeyne feare that itt would giue way and drowne all that part of the Towne where I dwelt ; in soe much that the Prince and all his woemen forsooke their house ; my next neighbour carried away his wife and his goodes on his Eliphantes and Cammells to fly to the hillssyde. All men had their horses ready at their doores to saue their liues ;